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A NEW DAY

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on January 18, 2021January 19, 2021

A companion piece to my previous blogpost: Things that we feel we could accomplish now that we have experienced not one but two CONSECUTIVE decent night’s sleeps, or at least with very minimal wakings from …

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I love you

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

Sharing this very absurd very narcissistic feeling here in this very safe very public space: sometimes I catch myself worrying that my son doesn’t love me. Or I think, what do I need to do …

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I resolve

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on January 2, 2021January 2, 2021

Morrison took these pictures of me after our New Year’s eve dinner the other night. YES, we got dressed up to go downstairs and play board games over Zoom because Joe had just pooped on …

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Water

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on December 29, 2020

If you’re wondering how exactly I’ve been spending my time since Joe was born — and these are not estimates, but rather, exact calculations — it’s 7% child rearing, logistics, child rearing logistics, working, sleeping …

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how to play

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

Santa brought Joe a box set of Montessori toys, designed to encourage him to grasp things and develop his curiosity and hand-eye coordination so that he might live a long and happy life, grabbing things …

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The Cookies of my Labor

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on December 23, 2020

I ask myself these questions: should all of the time I spent the last six weeks baking this myriad of Christmas Cookies for neighbors and friends and husband and self and taking pictures of these …

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STAY AT HOME

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on December 9, 2020

Here’s my impression of the News, as of late, but also for the last eight months: BREAKING BREAKING BIG LIFE CHANGING SHOCKING NEWS! THE GOVERNOR HAS ISSUED A STAY AT HOME ORDER, MEANING YOU MUST …

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not lost on me

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on October 5, 2020

October is national pregnancy and infant loss awareness month, and it’s not lost on me that this time last year, we’d just had our second failed IVF transfer and I screamed in a parking lot …

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Parent Words

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on September 29, 2020

One day you’re an adult with a master’s degree, you live in a house that you bought and you read Op-eds and take calls from your Lawyer, and the next day you’re a Parent and …

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dishwasher v. boy

Posted by Bekahbrunstetter on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020

I’ve always been in love with Time, or at least I’ve perceived it as Love, but it’s Control: I own it, and it does what I want. Each second is a something that can be …

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